eBook This Love Is Not For Cowards: Salvation and Soccer in Ciudad Juárez download
by Robert Andrew Powell

Author: Robert Andrew Powell
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA; 1 edition (February 28, 2012)
Language: English
Pages: 272
ePub: 1656 kb
Fb2: 1954 kb
Rating: 4.8
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Category: Traveling
Subcategory: Mexico
In this honest, unflinching, and powerful book, Robert Andrew Powell chronicles a season of soccer in this treacherous city .
In this honest, unflinching, and powerful book, Robert Andrew Powell chronicles a season of soccer in this treacherous city just across the Rio Grande, and the moments of pain, longing, and redemption along the way. As he travels across Mexico with the team, Powell reflects on this struggling nation and its watchful neighbor to the north.
Robert Andrew Powell takes us into the most murderous city in the world, where a soccer team and its fans .
Robert Andrew Powell takes us into the most murderous city in the world, where a soccer team and its fans teach us how to live and why. This book will save your life by giving you life. Charles Bowden, author of Murder City. However, Powell's book, This Love is Not For Cowards, gave me something that I really craved to which the other books left me longing and that is a view of what life is really like for citizens of the world's most dangerous city. Powell moved to Juarez at the height of the drug war to cover the Indios, the City's soccer team, which has been promoted to the highest level of the Mexican soccer league.
However, Powell's book, This Love is Not For Cowards .
However, Powell's book, This Love is Not For Cowards, gave me something that I really craved to which the other books left me longing and that is a view of what life is really like for citizens of the world's most dangerous city. In doing so, Powell bonds with players, fans, coaches, and team management going to all their home games and even accompanying them on the road.
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In this honest, unflinching, and powerful book, Robert Andrew Powell chronicles a season of soccer in this . This story is not just about sports, or even community, but the strength of humanity in a place where chaos reigns. Read on the Scribd mobile app. Download the free Scribd mobile app to read anytime, anywhere.
Salvation and Soccer in Ciudad Juárez. by Robert Andrew Powell. In this honest, unflinching, and powerful book, Robert Andrew Powell chronicles a season of soccer in this treacherous city just across the Rio Grande, and the moments of pain, longing, and redemption along the way.
About book: A successful author has a bit of a turn of fortune and decides to settle in Ciudad Juárez, on the .
The cost of living is cheap, the food is outstanding, and the people are terrific- if they haven't been killed.
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Robert Andrew Powell's book, "This Love Is Not For Cowards," focuses not on crime, but on a loyal group . However, Powell says that the soccer team in Ciudad Juarez, Los Indios, was a source of hope for the city and its people. He joined Bill Littlefield from WLRN in Miami to discuss the book.
Robert Andrew Powell's book, "This Love Is Not For Cowards," focuses not on crime, but on a loyal group of fans that cling to a soccer team. Powell said he was surprised by the level of violence when he arrived in Juarez. I guess I wasn't surprised in theory," he said. I knew it was a very violent city, obviously, that's all I had read about there was a lot of murder.
More than ten people are murdered every day in Ciudad Juárez, a city about the size of Philadelphia. As Mexico has descended into a feudal narco-state-one where cartels, death squads, the army, and local police all fight over billions of dollars in profits from drug and human trafficking-the border city of Juárez has been hit hardest of all. And yet, more than a million people still live there. They even love their impoverished city, proudly repeating its mantra: "Amor por Juárez."
Nothing exemplifies the spirit and hope of Juarenses more than the Indios, the city's beloved but hard-luck soccer team. Sport may seem a meager distraction, but to many it's a lifeline. It drew charismatic American midfielder Marco Vidal back from Dallas to achieve the athletic dreams of his Mexican father. Team owner Francisco Ibarra and Mayor José Reyes Ferriz both thrive on soccer. So does the dubiously named crew of Indios fans, El Kartel. In this honest, unflinching, and powerful book, Robert Andrew Powell chronicles a season of soccer in this treacherous city just across the Rio Grande, and the moments of pain, longing, and redemption along the way. As he travels across Mexico with the team, Powell reflects on this struggling nation and its watchful neighbor to the north. This story is not just about sports, or even community, but the strength of humanity in a place where chaos reigns.